A wonderful book. A Southern Gothic with a fresh, imaginative, twist. Every page has a surprising image or metaphor. My only complaint - and it's a small one - is that she didn;t quite go far enough. She went to the brink of grit-lit and backed away. I was sure when the young white girl and the black boy drove to town together bad things would happen - to the black boy. Bad things did happen, of course, but they are mild in comparison to what could have happened.
Also the father was treated very badly by the author. Understandable, since he had to be a bad father or there would have been no story. Every book can't be everything to everyone.
An excellent book for the aspiring writer to read. I highly recommend it.
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